Phone or no phone?
Yesterday was a spectacularly unproductive day for me, so I'm starting this one off right. A freewrite, timed and no cheating, first thing in the morning. @fitinfun would approve.
Well, not first thing. I had already tended my flock, walked my dog, fed my dog and cat, distributed medications and food to my son, filed some paperwork, sent one medical email, made one medical call, wished a dear friend happy birthday, and drunk some lukewarm coffee accompanied by the toasted and heavily buttered raisin bread I made yesterday.
Oh wait, that means yesterday was not spectacularly unproductive, I made bread!
I'm on a mission to get enough raisins into a loaf of bread. There are never enough raisins. I got closer this time as the picture shows, but there are still gaps with no raisins in them. I want at least one raisin in every single bite.
Back to the prompt, headphones. I actually had to look up "headphones". I needed to find out if they have anything to do with making phone calls. I don't use them you see, although I have bought a great many of them for my offspring. But I don't like to not be able to hear what is going on around me, and I don't like background music because it is distracting, and I don't use them.
So this is my explanation of why I had to look up what "headphones" even are. Even though I knew full well what they are. Why are they called "phones" I wonder?
This is my entry to @mariannewest's freewrite challenge https://steempeak.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-592-5-minute-freewrite-tuesday-prompt-ear-phones
I went back to my original method of writing for 4:30 and then taking my dear sweet time proofreading, not editing. I took out a lot of annoying exclamation points this time. Thank you for reading.
You bread looks delicious. I also make bread and if making raisin bread, I cut the raisins in half and they seem to stay in the dough better.
Getting raisins into bread is an art! But you cut every single raisin in half?
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Are headphones the same as earphones? I wonder...
What did you do with the raisins before you added them to the rest (flour, etc)?
Wash/soaked, dry and flour all over it?
Your early mornings sound like mine.
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You want my secret for raisin bread? I haven't perfected it yet, but here goes:
After the first rise, remove the bread gingerly from the bowl, do not knead or mix in any way.
spread it out on a work surface, sprinkle liberally with raisins that have been dusted with cinnamon sugar if you want cinnamon.
Roll it up and spread it out again. Sprinkle again with raisins.
Roll it up again! Now you can knead it, but not much, just a minute.
Form it into a loaf, let rise, and bake that baby.
The raisins should not be soaked. There is something in raisins that interferes with the action of the yeast, so it is important to put them in just before you form it into loaves so that they do not break up. And I use at least one cup of raisins per loaf.
Thank for asking!
Thanks, the cinnamon is a great tip. I love it.
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I think we must be twins! You got in to 80% in this photo and I would love to have this bread!
Twins!!!!
Hello! I think it's a very cool bread...
What a spectacularly productive day! I can barely get up, breakfast, gym, juice, do some curation on steemit and it’s time for bed. Days just aint what they used to be.
It’s the promptest of prompt delivery teams here with the challenge for today:
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-593-5-minute-freewrite-wednesday-prompt-carnation